News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-20
CAM BRIDGE.

'Oi l. o'Iilhtl 10 COIf
t Llucoln Cook is somewhat better, yet
. quite ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Madison Westover were
: visiting in town from No. Hyde Park last
week.
Friends of Mrs. James Parker, now OF
Brandon, will be sorry to learn that she
is not as well as when she was here last.
The sum of $1,000 has been pledged by
subscription toward building new Con-
gregational church OF reftting the old
one.
Effects of the gHn-powder explosion at
Piattsbdrgh, N. Y, which occurred at
about a. m. on Tuesday of last week,
were quite plainly felt here.
Clark Livingston has sent his mother,
Mrs. Elisha Bentley, a quantity of moss
from Florida, and it is quite a curiosity
to those seeing it for the first time.
Mrs. James Viele and little son, of Es-
sex junction, have been visiting relatives
in this place recently. She will be bet
ter remembered here as Marion Goodrich.
Mr.. Worthen. the evangelist, has been
conducting series of meetings here for
week, and also gave a temperance lee
! ture at the M. E. church on Monday eye
ming of last week.
MeSSrS. Editors =
A few epitaphs and inscriptions from
our own ''city of the dead'' may interest
those of this generation. In 1870 the viii
Iage barying ground was set apart by the
settlers for the last resting place of those
who should ''sleep the sleep that knows
no waking" Beautiful as to situation. it
Is place for which art has done little,
but nature much. The form of some of
the tOmbs and the wording of several
epitaphs is identical with those in the old
burial ground of the Pilgrims at Ply
mouth, Mass. For Instance
"This is a debt to Nature due,
Which have paid
And SO must you"
Another is
"Peace to her gentle shaded"
The familiar quotation occurs,
elm the midst of life
Low we are in DEATH"
These words arrest ones attention: -
"Passing stranger, call this not
place of fear and gloom.
Hove to wander near the spot,
1t is my sisters tomb"
Something similar is the following
''Stop, dear friends!
o take another view,
The dust that mOulders here
was once DelOFeu ike YOU.
Another is familiar:-
'Life, how short,
Eternity, how long," |
The following epitaph was once quite |
popular and occurs here:-
''Dear friends, look here,
As you pass by,
As you are now, so once was |.
AS am now, so you must be,
Prepare to die and follow me-"
hoe tpI1I cni lanOb at |
that with which we are unfamiliar" Per-
haps this is the reason why it may seem
curious to read here the names OF Try
phena. Afthar, Clio, PAMELA, Persis, Lu-
cyna, EliphaIet, Philander, Challis. Pc
leg, Cerrano and Abel. Here may be
found the graves of five of the Spafford
family, the WillOughbys, the Fassetts,
Warmers, Montagues, SAT-
TO, DIS, Kingsleys and many others. By
far the most pathetic sight is the rude
slabs of gray rock with no inscription.
If these stones could but speak, what
tales of poverty and sorrow they might
tell.
But we live to learn their story who suffered for
our sake,
To emulate their glory and follow in their wake"
There are two graves bearing date OF
death. 1890, two of 1871, one of 1874, one
of 1876, three of 1893, and one of 1899.
This inscription is from one of the earlier
graves William, son of VIM. and Mary
Campbell. died June II, 1870, aged 2
months. FraiI as the flower that bios
SONS but to die" The following possess
ses melancholy interest: Ruth Brush,
daughter of Eliphalet and Sarah Brush,
died May 81, 1874, in the 2lst year of her
age.
Stop, reader, stop,